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Non-Natives reporting the Native stories by Danielle: With so many fine Native American reporters, why a...
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RING ON ROADLESS by DAVID PETERSEN: Sorry Ray, but I have to add my voice to the choir...
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More gas, less grouse | Study predicts fewer sage grouse as energy develop...
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Death by a thousand wells | Unregulated domestic wells are straining water sup...
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Related: Unnatural Preservation Public-land managers in the era of global warming face uncomfortable choices: Do they intervene to protect dying plants and animals, or stand back and let this new version of “nature” take its course?; The BLM plays with fire in Oregon Pepper Trail says the BLM’s preferred alternative for an Oregon forest will only increase the risk of wildfire.; Where there's fire, there's global warming Climate scientist Anthony Westerling is working to illuminate the connection between rising global temperatures and the increasing ferocity of the West’s forest fires; In a warming West, expect more fire A new scientific study predicts that overall wildfire size in the West will double by 2100 because of global warming; Searching for the true causes of the West’s fire problems Pepper Trail, a wildlife biologist in Oregon, says that this is not the time to log our way out of wildfire threats in the West.

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